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Organised by SLU Global at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the Swedish International Agriculture Network Initiative (SIANI), with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). 
About the Agri4D-conference 2023
More than 800 million people in the world are undernourished, despite the growing scientific knowledge and decades of international aid. Natural resource conflicts, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly push more people into poverty and hunger. At the same time, obesity is an increasing health problem in almost all countries in the world. While the majority of existing food systems are drivers of biodiversity loss, greenhouse gas emissions and water insecurity, they also provide livelihoods to a majority of people.
Just and resilient food systems can contribute to all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At this year’s Agri4D conference, we ask the participants to specifically address the core question: ‘How can we shape sustainable and just food systems resilient to the new realities of changing climates, ongoing transformations in food production, supply and demand, health threats and pandemics?
The Agri4D platform
The objective of the conference is to present and integrate knowledge about potential solutions and outcomes, while identifying how those solutions might be incentivised and how, together, they can enable the social and economic transformations necessary to advance and achieve the goal of food and nutrition security for all.
With the ongoing pandemic, we will hold the conference online enabling a wide international participation creating a great potential for open and dynamic conversations. We divide the three days conference into 6 topics. The conference is a learning opportunity for all involved to raise awareness based on scientific knowledge.
Some history of Agri4D
- Agri4D 2021: A digital success towards sustainable and just food systems
- Agri4D 2021: "I hope to learn how other people are addressing the changing realities in food production"
- Agri4D 2021: Agri4D is under way!
- Agri4D 2021: SLU brings together hundreds of actors from around the world for sustainable and fair food systems
- Agri4D 2019: Zero Hunger by 2030, which road to take?
- Agri4D 2017: Rural transformation and urbanization
- Agri4D 2017: Flashback
- Agri4D 2015: Agriculture for food security post 2015 – the role of science
Interviews Agri4D 2019
"Agriculture is a corner stone in sustainable economic development"
Kerstin Jonsson Cissé, Head of the Global Sustainable Economic Development Unit at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
"We need to find solutions for very small farmers"
Eric Malézieux is Director of the Agroecological Functioning and Performances of Horticultural Systems Research Unit at the French Agricultural Research and International Cooperation Organization (CIRAD).
"One of the most important policies is investing in rural young women"
Aslihan Arslan is Senior Research Economist at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Organising committee
The Agri4D organising committee is represented by a number of people from both SIANI, SLU Global and Akademikonferens.
- Alin Kadfak, project leader
- Maja Malmberg, project leader
- Katarina Börling, research officer
- Agnes Bondesson, communication/ web editor
- Marta Anguera, communication/ social media
